Edward D. Tracy

Edward Dorr Tracy, Jr. (3 November 1833-1 May 1863) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Edward Dorr Tracy, Jr. was born in Macon, Georgia in 1833, and he worked as a lawyer in Georgia until he moved to Huntsville, Alabama in the late 1850s. At the start of the American Civil War, he served in the 4th Alabama Infantry as a captain, fighting at Bull Run before becoming Lieutenant-Colonel of the 19th Alabama on 12 October 1861 and being sent to the Western Theater. Tracy was unhorsed at Shiloh before being promoted to Brigadier-General, and he was killed at Port Gibson on 1 May 1863.